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<p>Kendall Coyne was always the young one.</p>
<p>For the inaugural IIHF Women&rsquo;s Under-18 World Championship in 2008, the then 15-year-old Coyne was the youngest player on the team.</p>
<p>A year and a half later at the 2009 USA Hockey Women&rsquo;s National Festival leading up to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Coyne, then 17, was once again the youngest player invited to the tryout camp.</p>
<p>That is a distinction she will shed this go-around. There are six players on the 25-player preliminary Women&rsquo;s Team roster younger than Coyne.</p>
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<p class="textlinkblack"><strong>Position:</strong> Forward<br /><strong>Shoots:</strong> Left<br /><strong>Height:</strong> 5-foot-2<br /><strong>Weight:</strong> 125 pounds<br /><strong>Birth Date:</strong> May 25, 1992<br /><strong>Hometown:</strong> <br />Palos Heights, Ill.<br /><strong>College: </strong><br />Northeastern University<br /><strong>USA Hockey History:</strong> Played for the U.S. Women&rsquo;s Under-18 National Team from 2008-2010. A member of the U.S. Women&rsquo;s National Team at three IIHF Women&rsquo;s World Championships (2011-13). Played in the Four Nations Cup in 2010 and 2011. Participated in the 2009 Women&rsquo;s National Festival.<strong><br /></strong><strong><br /></strong></p>
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<p>While she is still one of the younger players on the team, she brings a wealth of international experience.</p>
<p>She has skated in 63 games for Team USA, and was a part of the aforementioned tryout camp for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.</p>
<p>That experience in 2009 helped her prepare for the selection camp this time around in Lake Placid, N.Y.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It was quite an experience,&rdquo; Coyne said. &ldquo;When you think of the whole tryout perspective and what you&rsquo;re trying out for, at the time I was really young, and I was just excited to be there. Everything was eye opening to me. Not making the cut, it really hurt and I think that helped me for the 2014 tryouts.&rdquo;</p>
<p>When she was younger, Coyne would head to the local rink in her hometown of Palos Heights, Ill., to watch her older brother play hockey.</p>
<p>She got started on the ice when she was three. However, hockey skates weren&rsquo;t the first things to touch the ice.</p>
<p>&ldquo;My parents put me in figure skates. That lasted about a week,&rdquo; she said. <br />Coyne said she wanted to play hockey because she wanted to be more like her brother, who is three years older than her. The rest, as they say, is history.</p>
<p>With no all-girls&rsquo; teams in her area, Coyne grew up playing on boys&rsquo; teams. She didn&rsquo;t think anything of it, although she said she was never as good as them, which made her strive to get better.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I thought it was completely normal. Up until about 14, I would change in the same locker room as them, and I would just look at them like I was one of them,&rdquo; Coyne said. &ldquo;But as I got older and times change, I was like, &lsquo;oh, now people are starting to look at me. People are like, &lsquo;why is there a girl on your team?&rsquo; &rdquo;</p>
<p>Coyne got a chance to compete against other girls at the 2008 U-18 World Championship, where she posted six points in five games, including the overtime winner in the gold-medal game against Canada.</p>
<p>Her path eventually took her to Northeastern University in Boston, where she enrolled for the 2011-12 campaign. Two seasons, 65 games and 113 points later, Coyne finds herself on the verge of representing her country at the highest level.</p>
<p>She credits her experiences with college hockey for helping her grow as a player.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s helped me tremendously,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;We would play an 80-game season in youth hockey, and in college it&rsquo;s about 40. So you really cherish those games and never take them for granted. I think overall, being with the team and just having fun is really helping me.&rdquo;</p>
<p>However, that college career will be on hold as Coyne joins the women&rsquo;s residency program just down the street from the Northeastern campus. While she is excited for the opportunity to play with and against the world&rsquo;s best, she already misses her college teammates.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been tough because I&rsquo;ll be having a group text with my teammates at Northeastern, and it&rsquo;s hard not being there,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;But playing in the Olympics is the ultimate dream for a female hockey player, and I think they&rsquo;re all more than understanding why I&rsquo;m gone for the year.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Spoken like a player who is wise beyond her years.</p>
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<p>Standing just 5-foot-1 and weighing little more than 100 pounds, you might think Kendall Coyne has trouble standing out in crowds. Fortunately for the braces-bound 15-year-old from the Chicago suburbs, her talent on the ice has set her apart from almost every crowd she&rsquo;s ever been in.</p>
<p>Case in point: Coyne was the only player from last summer&rsquo;s USA Hockey Girls&rsquo; Select 15 Player Development Camp to be selected to participate in the Women&rsquo;s National Festival in Lake Placid, N.Y., and play on the 2007 U.S. Women&rsquo;s Under-18 Select Team for a three-game series with Canada. </p>
<p>The youngest of 66 players in Lake Placid, she was among the scoring leaders at the festival while facing the likes of seasoned veterans such as Jenny Potter, who has won three Olympic medals as part of&nbsp; Team USA.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It was so cool,&rdquo; said Coyne of playing with some of the best women&rsquo;s hockey players in the world at the festival. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know what to expect playing against the older girls, but I just had to work harder because they&rsquo;re bigger and stronger.&rdquo;</p>
<p>From there, Coyne went on to Ottawa for the Under-18 Series, where she was two years younger than the majority of the players on the squad. Again, she impressed the Team USA coaches enough that she was designated as one of 22 players invited to try out for the 2008 U.S. Women&rsquo;s National Under-18&nbsp; Team that will play in the inaugural IIHF World Women&rsquo;s Under-18 Championship&nbsp; Jan. 7-12 in Calgary.</p>
<p>With the holiday camp concluding on Jan. 1, Coyne has proved herself to be a strong contender to represent her country at the world championship. Because she is one of 11 members back from the 2007 select team, Coyne knows she has a lot to live up to.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The returning players know what to expect and know that they have to be leaders,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;We have to work harder to earn our spots because the coaches will be expecting more from us.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Luckily for Coyne, she has a leg up on the rest when it comes to playing in Canada. When she was 11 years old, she played up a level on Team Powerade, a Girls&rsquo; 12 &amp; Under team that traveled to Quebec City to play in a large boys&rsquo; tournament.</p>
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<p class="textlinkblack"><strong>FORWARD<br />Shoots:</strong> Left<strong><br /> Hometown: </strong>Oak Lawn, Ill.<strong><br /> Height: </strong>5-foot-1<strong><br /> Weight: </strong>115 pounds <strong><br /> Birthdate: </strong>May 25, 1992<strong><br /> USA Hockey Experience: </strong>A member of the U.S. Women&rsquo;s Under-18 Select Team and the U.S. Women&rsquo;s National Under-18 Team.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;We played the host team at the Quebec Coliseum, and the fans weren&rsquo;t very happy since we were the only girls&rsquo; team,&rdquo; said Coyne. &ldquo;The arena was packed all the way to the top (15,000 people), and we ended up winning the game, 2-1. They didn&rsquo;t invite us back the next year.&rdquo;</p>
<p>If she is able to help the U.S. team to the gold medal, she&rsquo;d add it to the five state titles and one USA Hockey National Championship she already has under her belt in youth hockey, most of which came with boys&rsquo; teams. Just this past season, Coyne racked up a whopping 126 points in 63 games with the Chicago Mission Bantam Major team, an elite boys&rsquo; team based in Addison, Ill. </p>
<p>Even when Coyne is taking a night off to watch one of her four siblings play hockey, she&rsquo;s still looking for ways to improve. According to her mother, Ahlise, Kendall is always trying to get more ice time and find places to train to achieve her dreams of playing college hockey and for Team USA.</p>
<p>When asked why she plays hockey, she simply says, &ldquo;Because I love it.&rdquo; </p>
<p>That love, coupled with her young talent and work ethic, is bound to keep Coyne from ever going unnoticed, especially on the ice.</p>
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<h3><strong>Youth Star: </strong>Keanna Carlson<br /></h3>
<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://usahockeymagazine.com/sites/default/files/images/Youth-Star.img_assist_custom-117x161.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-img_assist_custom-117x161 " width="117" height="161" /></span><strong>GOALTENDER<br />Hometown:</strong> International Falls, Minn.<br /><strong>Age: </strong>11<br /><strong>Nickname:</strong> Kee-Kee<br /><strong>Favorite Player:</strong> Katey Weatherton<br /><strong>Career Highlights:</strong> Keanna has been playing hockey since she was 5, and has been between the pipes since she was 6. For the second consecutive year, she was selected to play for two Minnesota all-star teams. She is currently playing for a Girls&rsquo; 12 &amp; Under team in her hometown. Keanna&rsquo;s dream is that one day there will be a women&rsquo;s NHL.</p>
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http://usahockeymagazine.com/article/2008-01/kendall-coyne#commentsKendall CoyneU.S. Women's Under 18Next American StarTue, 08 Mar 2011 23:00:33 +0000admin4334 at http://usahockeymagazine.com